Scholars

Dr.

Positions:

Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)
Instructional Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering

overview

My current research interests are in intelligent user interfaces (IUI), including activity recognition-driven interfaces such as sketch, motion, and navigation. My recent primary focus has been on developing and deploying pen-driven intelligent tutoring systems for improving remote classroom instruction and homework study through instructor-emulated assessment and interactive visual feedback. My research efforts have been published at highly-visible computing conferences and journals such as IAAI, CHI, MobileHCI, TiiS, and IJHCS.

education and training

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2019
M.S. in Computer Science, Texas A&M University - (College Station, Texas, United States) 2010
B.S. in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin - (Austin, Texas, United States) 2006

selected publications

Academic Articles9

Cherian, J., Ray, S., Taele, P., Koh, J. I., & Hammond, T. (2024). Exploring the Impact of the NULL Class on In-the-Wild Human Activity Recognition.. 24(12), 3898-3898.
Cherian, J., Ray, S., Mernar, T., Taele, P., Mach, H., Koh, J. I., Ye, P., & Hammond, T. (2024). A Step Toward Better Care: Understanding What Caregivers and Residents in Assisted Living Facilities Value in Health Monitoring Systems. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CSCW1), 1-29.
Hammond, T., Knijnenburg, B., O'Donovan, J., & Taele, P. (2022). Special Issue on Highlights of IUI 2021: Introduction. Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. 12(4), 1-4.
Hammond, T., Knijnenburg, B. P., O'Donovan, J., & Taele, P. (2022). Special Issue on Highlights of IUI 2021: Introduction.. 12, 25:1-25:1.
Schenkel, J., Taele, P., Goldberg, D., Horney, J., & Hammond, T. (2020). Identifying Potential Mosquito Breeding Grounds: Assessing the Efficiency of UAV Technology in Public Health. Robotics. 9(4), 91-91.

SDG 3

Chapters6

Garcia-Pi, B., Chaudhury, R., Versaw, M., Back, J., Kwon, D., Kicklighter, C., Taele, P., & Seo, J. H. (2023). AllyChat: Developing a VR Conversational AI Agent Using Few-Shot Learning to Support Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities. Abdelnour-Nocera, J. L., Lárusdóttir, M. K., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., & Winckler, M. (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction INTERACT 2023. 402-407. Springer Nature.
Barreto, L., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2016). A Stylus-Driven Intelligent Tutoring System for Music Education Instruction. 10th Conference on Pen and Touch Technology in Education. CPTTE 2016. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., & Adler, A. (Eds.), Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink. 141-161. Springer Nature.

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Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2016). An Intelligent Sketch-Based Educational Interface for Learning Complex Written East Asian Phonetic Symbols. 10th Conference on Pen and Touch Technology in Education. CPTTE 2016. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., & Adler, A. (Eds.), Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink. 129-140. Springer Nature.

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Williford, B., Taele, P., Nelligan, T., Li, W., Linsey, J., & Hammond, T. (2016). PerSketchTivity: An Intelligent Pen-Based Educational Application for Design Sketching Instruction. 10th Conference on Pen and Touch Technology in Education. CPTTE 2016. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., & Adler, A. (Eds.), Revolutionizing Education with Digital Ink. 115-127. Springer Nature.

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Kim, H., Valentine, S., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2015). EasySketch: A Sketch-based Educational Interface to Support Childrens Self-regulation and School Readiness. 10th Conference on Pen and Touch Technology in Education. CPTTE 2016. Hammond, T., Valentine, S., Adler, A., & Payton, M. (Eds.), The Impact of Pen and Touch Technology on Education. 35-46. Springer Nature.

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Conference Papers47

Yang, C., Arredondo, K., Koh, J. I., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2023). HEARD-LE: An Intelligent Conversational Interface for Wordle. International Cconference on Multimodal Interaction. 46-50.
Kim, S., Cherian, J., Ray, S., Lacy, A., Taele, P., Koh, J. I., & Hammond, T. (2023). A Wearable Haptic Interface for Assisting Blind and Visually Impaired Students in Learning Algebraic Equations. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-7.
Williford, B., Ray, S., Koh, J. I., Cherian, J., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2023). Exploring Creativity Support for Concept Art Ideation. Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1-7.
Koh, J. I., Ray, S., Cherian, J., Taele, P., & Hammond, T. (2023). An Intelligent Virtual Meeting App for Seamlessly Polling Virtual Participants On-the-Fly with Nonverbal Communication Cues. 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 95-98.
Maity, S., Taele, P., Cherian, J., Ray, S., Koh, J. I., & Hammond, T. (2023). Chemisketch: Learning Lewis Dot Diagrams with Pen-Based Editing Interactions and Immediate Feedback. 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. 112-115.